Editing Rhythm guitar (section)

==Funk==
[[File:Funk & R&B vamp riff.png|thumb|left|400px|Vamp riff typical of funk and R&B.<ref name="Marshall">Marshall, Wolf (2008). ''Stuff! Good Guitar Players Should Know'', p. 138. {{ISBN|1-4234-3008-5}}.</ref> {{Audio|Funk & R&B vamp riff.mid|Play}}]]

Funk utilized the same [[extended chords]] found in [[bebop]] jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths. However, unlike bebop jazz, with its complex, rapid-fire chord changes, funk virtually abandoned chord changes, creating static single chord [[vamp (music)|vamps]] with little harmonic movement, but with a complex and driving rhythmic feel. Some have [[jazz]] backgrounds. The chords used in funk songs typically imply a [[dorian mode|dorian]] or [[mixolydian mode]], as opposed to the major or natural minor tonalities of most popular music. Melodic content was derived by mixing these modes with the [[blues scale]].

In funk bands, guitarists typically play in a percussive style, often using the [[Wah-wah pedal|wah-wah]] sound effect and muting the notes in their riffs to create a percussive sound. Guitarists [[Ernie Isley]] of [[The Isley Brothers]] and [[Eddie Hazel]] of [[Funkadelic]] were notably influenced by [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s improvised solos. Eddie Hazel, who worked with George Clinton, is a notable guitar soloist in funk. Ernie Isley was tutored at an early age by Jimi Hendrix himself, when he was a part of The Isley Brothers backing band and lived in the attic temporarily at the Isleys' household. [[Jimmy Nolen]] and [[Phelps Collins]] are famous funk rhythm guitarists who both worked with [[James Brown]].